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[Background: the vault rankings are nothing but a compilation of survey results sent to big firm associates. we are asked to assign a PRESTIGE SCORE of 1 to 10 to each firm in a list of hundreds. below is some live blogging as I judge firms].

There are like 4 different firms that start with "Baker" and I've never heard of or interacted with any of them.

How... unprestigious.

* assigns 1/10 prestige score *

Update: First 10 goes to Cleary. Not the best at everything, but peerless enough in enough respects to earn a big fat 1-0 from me.

Update: I don't know what Cooley does but it's got the same name as a shitty law school so minus one prestige point.

Update: Covington gets a gentleman's 10. We all know they used to be really impressive and aren't asking hard questions about current performance.\

Update: DLA Piper gets a 2/10, to preserve 1/10 for "no but really, I've never heard of you"

Update: I met somebody nice from Fried, Frank one. 7/10.

Update: Latham gets a 4. Never forget.

Update: Munger snags a 10, based solely on what I researched while a law student.

Update: Crap, I just remembered it was the guy from Wilkie I remembered who was nice to me, not the guy from Fried Frank. Oh well, too late now. Wilkie gets an 8 because I feel bad for forgetting the first time around.

The Vault rankings are nothing but a compilation of surveys filled out by associates at big law firms. I am an associate at a big law firm live blogging as I fill out my LAW FIRM PRESTIGE survey. I am literally ranking every law firm they could think of from 1 to 10, on the basis of PRESTIGE.

They will then tabulate their results and create the Vault 100 rankings. Based on the responses of myself and other similarly well informed consumers of legal services.